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Geometry: An Interactive Journey to Mastery

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

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Geometry Courses Trigonometry Courses Linear Equations Courses Pythagorean Theorem Courses Congruence Courses Polygons Courses

Course Description

Overview

Experience an intuitive and fun approach to learning the subject of geometry in this course taught by an award-winning educator.

Syllabus

  • By This Professor
  • 01: Geometry—Ancient Ropes and Modern Phones
  • 02: Beginnings—Jargon and Undefined Terms
  • 03: Angles and Pencil-Turning Mysteries
  • 04: Understanding Polygons
  • 05: The Pythagorean Theorem
  • 06: Distance, Midpoints, and Folding Ties
  • 07: The Nature of Parallelism
  • 08: Proofs and Proof Writing
  • 09: Similarity and Congruence
  • 10: Practical Applications of Similarity
  • 11: Making Use of Linear Equations
  • 12: Equidistance—A Focus on Distance
  • 13: A Return to Parallelism
  • 14: Exploring Special Quadrilaterals
  • 15: The Classification of Triangles
  • 16: Circle-ometry—On Circular Motion
  • 17: Trigonometry through Right Triangles
  • 18: What Is the Sine of 1°?
  • 19: The Geometry of a Circle
  • 20: The Equation of a Circle
  • 21: Understanding Area
  • 22: Explorations with Pi
  • 23: Three-Dimensional Geometry—Solids
  • 24: Introduction to Scale
  • 25: Playing with Geometric Probability
  • 26: Exploring Geometric Constructions
  • 27: The Reflection Principle
  • 28: Tilings, Platonic Solids, and Theorems
  • 29: Folding and Conics
  • 30: The Mathematics of Symmetry
  • 31: The Mathematics of Fractals
  • 32: Dido's Problem
  • 33: The Geometry of Braids—Curious Applications
  • 34: The Geometry of Figurate Numbers
  • 35: Complex Numbers in Geometry
  • 36: Bending the Axioms—New Geometries

Taught by

James Tanton

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